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i i 1 BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) 'All Says Rams' Van By HAL WOOD Los Angeles OP) Norm (Dutch) Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams, for nearly a decade one of the most feared passing quarterbacks in the National Professional Football league, has retired. A question and answer inter view: Q. Have you retired for keeps? A. I've taken a job as a Indians To Attempt To Finish on Top of New York Yankees Editor' note: This is the 15th of 16 dispatches on the cff-season outlook for each major league club for 1958, written by the managers of each club. By BOBBY BRAGAN Manager Cleveland Indians Written for United Press Havana UT) I have, as Cleveland's new manager a great challenge, bigger than when I signed with Pitts burgh. But I will have better players and better men around me. Our objectives are to win the pennant and to make the Indians a good drawing card. I am coming to a new league. This is exciting and a new experience to me. Per haps many others wouldn't Hke to be in my place. But I hink that fellows like Frank Xane, Mel Harder, Red Kress .and Eddie Stanky can help me a lot while ! learn about Old Pro Money Winners Come Through Again Los Angeles (W -Muscular Frank Stranahan, who already has more money than most people have troubles, heads for the $30,000 Bing Crosby tournament at Pebble Beach today convinced that weightlifting is the key to golfing success. , Stranahan, heir to spark plug millions In Toledo, got off on the right foot for 1958 Monday when he captured the $7,000 first prize in the $40. 000 Los Angeles Open. He had a 72-hole total of 275 nine under par for the dis tance. The handsome shotmaker, who had not won a tourna ment since capturing the $15, 000 Eastern Open at Balti more in 1955, was elated with his victory. "I won more money in this tournament than I did in all of 1937," he said. "I won something over $5,000 last year which doesn't pay ex penses in this game." Great as an amateur for many years and winner of just about every major simon pure title except the U.S. Amateur crown, Stranahan at S3 has been a flop as a pro fessional. Instead of this giving him -idded incentive it apparently -affected his game. While he Jieat most of the pros as an "amateur, until this tourna ment he never won much in the way of hard cash. Usually he was a threat and that ended it. But in the Los Angeles Open he finished to whip runnerup E. J. (Dutch) Harrison by three strokes. Harrison won $3,750 for sec ond place and young Gay Brewer, of Cincinnati, the third-round leader, finished third with a 279. His finish was good for $2,600. Bill Cas per, one of the country's top money winners last season, came in 4th with a 280 and collected $2,200. HOCKEY NEW YORK OP Willie Marshall of Hershey, although sidelined last week with a shoulder injury, still leads the American Hockey League in scoring. The 25-year old" center has scored 22 goals and 32 assists for a total of 54 points, but his 3?ad over' teammate Dune fisher has been narrowed to Six points. Fisher tallied four aimes last week to boost his 3ttalto48. MONTREAL OP Dickie dSSoore, who has long played Hh the shadow of such Mont TSeal super stars as Maurice Richard. Jean Beliveau and Sernie Geoffrion, is the na tional Hockey League's new leading scorer. . Moore, who turned 27 Mon-,-day, had his second big week in a row, registering six points oa three goals and three as sists. According to official fig ures, Moore holds a one-point lead' over teammate Henri Richard, 45-44. MAIL TRIBUNE Done With Football' sales representative for a pipe coating company and as far as I'm concerned right now. I will not come out of retirement. Q. Did you quit because of a reported feud with Coach Sid Gillman of the Rams? A. Absolutely not. Q. Would you play again if traded to some other club? A. No sir. I'm all through. Playing pro football is hard the American league. Minoso to Help Indians One of the players who will help me a lot, not only in the field but also as a draw ing card, is Minnie Minoso He is one of the best defen sive outfielders in the league and one of the top run pro ducers. He played 153 games last season and is the type who plays despite minor aches and pains. This fact is one of great importance to a team. Minoso is the type play er who always gives his best in the field. He will be, no doubt of it, the sparkplug of the Indians. I know we will not have Early Wynn around, but I think we have several prom ising youngsters who might surprise. Wynn's place could be occupied by Cal McLish, Hank Aguirre or newcomers Jim Grant and Dick Brodow ski (these two played with San Diego Padres last sum mer). I don't want to take Ray Narleski or Don Mossi from the bullpen. They are the best in that department and I think they could be more useful as relievers than as starters. My pitching staff will be built around Herb Score. As far as I know he is the ace of the staff and the ace of any staff. According to Lane his vision should be normal when spring training opens. I am hoping that he will have a big year, because he can help as much as any single player in the league. Yankees Main Problem One of my main problems will be to beat the Yankees or at least finish as near as possible to them. The Yan kees can be beaten but at the same time it is hard to find holes in clubs like that. It's like Oklahoma losing to Notre Dame in football. It happened and you would like to see it happen again. Right now our big need is an infielder, especially a sec ond baseman. It's possible that one of the younger play ers on the roster might sur prise, but we sure could use a guy like Bobby Richardson. In spring training my two primary tasks will be getting to know my own club and at the same time learning about the new league. Oh, one more thing' I don't expect to give much trouble to American league umpires. In fact I expect to manage every inning of our 154 games. Five Break 25 Straight Birds Five men broke 25 straight Sunday in trapshoot practice at Medford Gun club. They were George Jantzer, Harry Tonn, Everett Gibson, Earl Hvall and Ray Coleman. Final practice before the Jan. 19 Red and Blue team shoot will be held next Sun day. Jan. 12 also will be the final day for shooters to cast votes for team captains. QUICQ RETURN TRIP Hartford, Conn (IP) Twenty-four hours after being re leased from a hospital, Mi chael McCarthy was back again . when a tanker truck rammed a car in which he was riding. Bowling CLASSIC BOWLING LEAGUE Standings: W L Sewing Machine Center 44 'i 27 V Morse Motors 40 2 31 2 Lamport's Sptg. Goods ..J. 39" 2 32 'j E. H. Mann Co 39 2 32x Oak Knoll Golf Course 39 33 Henry's Broiler 37 35 Hight Real Estate . 36i 35'2 Hillver Oil Co 35',2 36 '2 Trail Creek Lumber Co. 29 43 Sam s Sporting Goods .. 20 52 Results: Trail Creek Lumber Co. 4 (Stan Straus 551) 2.580; Sam's Sporting Goods 0 (Frank Chapman 544) 2.469. Hillver Oil Co. 3 (Norm Hillyer 555) 2,586; Morse Motors 1 (George Clark 543 2,519. E. H. Mann Co. 2 (Marshall Brown 586) 2.652; Sewing Machine Center 2 (Walt Daigle 591) 2,658. Henrv's Broiler 4 (Bill Blunt 604i 2.701: Hight Real Estate 0 (Frank Kirk 596) 2,599. Oak Knoll Golf Course 4 (Ray Wise 593 2.686; Lamport's Sport ing Goods 0 (Harold Vessey 542) 2.145. Tuesday, January 7, 1958 Brocklin way to make what they call "easy money." Q. Have you any plans to go into radio or television? A. That part of my plans is indefinite. Q. In all your nine years of playing professional football, what pass-defender gave you the most trouble? A. That's easy. The Detroit backfield, which is called in some quarters "Chris' Crew." Q. Who hit you the hard est? A. They all hit hard, I can't think of a single man who hit with more impact than an other. All those big bruisers hit hard. Q. Would you be interested in returning to professional football in the executive end? A. I'm all through with football all ends of the busi ness. Q. Where are you going to live? A. I'm moving to Portland, Ore., where I will be North west sales representative for Plicoflex, Inc. Q. What are you going to do between now and then? A. Rest, visit with my fam ily. And on Jan. 28 I fly to Phoenix to appear at the an nual sports award banquet of the Phoenix Press Box asso ciation. Q. Can I definitely say that there is absolutely no chance of you returning to profes sional football? A. Well-1-1. . . West Rates Over East In Betting Los Angeles HP) The West was a 3-point favorite over the East today in early odds on the annual All-Star Pro Bowl Game Sunday in Memo rial Coliseum. However, guesses of the "experts" didn't seem to wor ry Coach Buddy Parker of the East, who enthused Monday that his team was "undoubt edly one of the best." Parker ran his team through a long practice and named OUie Matson, Chicago Cardinals, and Jim Brown, Cleveland, to start in the backfield along with Ray Ren fro and quarterback Earl Mor ral. Both the East and West squads were reported in good shape physically and "com ing along fine." Coach George Wilson call ed for another workout for the West today at Gilmore Field. Y. A. Tittle was report ed to be hitting with fine pass ing in Monday's drills. Willie Mays Signs Contract For 58 Season San Francisco OPI Willie Mays, the "say hey" kid who has patrolled centerfield for the Giants off and on for six years, was the third highest paid player in baseball today on the strength of his "$65,- 000 plus" 1958 contract. The former Alabama field hajid showed all the polish of a veteran sports personality Monday as he posed with his boss, Giants owner Horace Stoneham, at a much bally- hooed contract signing cere-. mony. "Man, 3'ou can say I like this contract," the National League batting star said, "Mr. Stoneham gets his money's worth." The beaming Stoneham, who appeared to be enchant ed with the idea of laying out more money for any National League player other than Stan Musial of the Cardinals, said "we got a bargain." Stoneham agreed Mays, who batted .333 last season and hit 35 homers, was get ting "a substantial increase in salary." But, true to the fashion in the baseball busi ness, he wouldn't be pinned down to specifics on salary terms. "You can say Willie will be getting more than we hav ever paid a player," he said. "A safe guess would be in ex cess of $65,000." Some sports writers are saying flatly the 26-year-old long ball hitting Giant is get ting $70,000. Whether or not the figure reaches that, Mays is still only behind Musial and Ted Williams of the Bos ton Red Sox when it comes to atmospheric salaries. VENTURI TOP ROOKIE Chicago (IP) Ken Venturi, 27 - year - old San Francisco golfer who turned pro in the U.S. Open last June, was named pro golfs "Rookie of the Year" by Golf. Digest Magazine. Venturi won S17, 377 to rank 14th on the play-for-pay circuit. SMASHING A RIGHT UPPERCUT into Johnny Busso in the ninth round at New York, Paolo Rosi won a decision in a torrid 10-round battle. (International Soundphoto) IK if v r' " if A My ttw LEAPING HIGH during game with University of Califor nia, Tink Van Patton, Temple, scores two of 13 points he rolled up in 69-59 victory at New York. (International) MedfordTrlbune SIPQDmTTS Tornado, Axemen Clash; Rogue League Will Open A heavy schedule of bas ketball conflicts for . high school quintets of this area furnishes convincing evidence that the holiday season is over. t A total of 16 games are on tap this week for members of three conferences in this cor ner of Oregon. Bulk of the ac tion will be counting tangles in the A-l, A-2 and B cir cuits but one non-loop series will be of principal interest to Medford fans. The kings-x encounter will bring potent South Eugene to Medford for Friday and Sat urday night appearances. Med ford's associates of the A-l Southern Oregon conference all will engage in league con tention. Klamath Falls will be at Ashland for a two-game week end stand. Grants Pass will tackle Crater Friday at Central Point and the two clubs have a Saturday date at Grants Pass. Rogue Loop Begins Formal contention begins this week in the A-2 Rogue league. Illinois Valley vies at Phoenix, Rogue River at Glendale and Eagle Point at Brookings Friday. The cam paign is expected to be a bat tle among Phoenix, Brook ings, Glendale and Eagle Point. Two Jackson County B league frays are this evening with Butte Falls at Jackson ville and Prospect at Talent. Prospect comes to St. Mary's Webfoots Prep For LA Games Eugene W Coach Steve Belko worked out his Oregon basketball team today in pre paration for a two-game in vasion of Los Angeles. Oregon meets UCLA and Southern California Satur day night. The Ducks lost their lone conference game by a 64-58 count to UCLA after going into a deep freeze for nine minutes - after being nine points ahead. CHAMBERLAIN SIDELINED Lawrence, Kan. (IP) Wilt Chamberlain, seven-foot All American center, will be side lined tonight when Kansas opens its Big .bight confer ence season against Okla homa. Chamberlain also miss ed the Kansas game with Oklahoma State last Thurs day when the Jayhawks, then unbeaten and No. 1 in the country, lost, 52-50. of Medford Thursday and Tal ent journeys to Butte Falls Friday. In non-league games to night Glendale will be host to Douglas and Illinois Valley to Myrtle Creek. Butte Falls goes to Rogue River next Sat urday. Against South Eugene, the Black Tornado of Medford will take on one of Oregon's classiest teams. Available rec ords show the Axemen with victories this season over Franklin and Benson of Port land, South Salem, Central Catholic and Beaverton. They beat the Portland Interschol astic league clubs each twicer In the last two games all Stater Charlie Warren has tallied 71 points for the Axe men 43 against Beaverton and 28 against Central Catholic. Court Ratings Place OSC 10th Best in Nation New York (IP) The United Press college basketball rat ings with first-place votes and won-loss records through Jan. 4 in parentheses: Team Points 1. W. Virginia (21, 10-0) ..309 2. Kansas (9,-10-1) 288 3. N. Carolina (3, 9-1) ... 282 4. San Fran. (2, 10-1) ... 208 5. Kansas State (9-1) . 200 6. Cincinnati (8-1) Ill 7. (Tie) Temple (7-2) 85 7. (Tie) Bradley (6-1) 85 9. Oklahoma State (8-1) .. 63 10. Oregon State (10-1) 52 Second 10 group 11, Mis sissippi State, 34; 12 tie, Texas Christian, Maryland and Michigan State 32 each; 15, Kentucky, 22; 16, Utah, 15; 17, Minnesota, 13; 18 tie, Cali fornia, Iowa State and North Carolina State. Others UCLA, Illinois, Texas Tech and Seattle, 5 each; Dayton, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, 4 each; Alabama and St. John's, N.Y., 3 each; LaSalle, Pepperdine and St. Louis, 1 each. 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I want him back at St. Nick's against Tex Gonzales on Jan. 20." 1 Chris Dundee of the Miami Beach Auditorium offered the sandy-haired speedster from Saginaw, Mich., a nationally televised bout with ex-cham pion Kid Gavilan in early February. Because 23-year-old Craw ford suffered a slight cut on his left brow while winning the unanimous decision over Vejar, he may have to wait for the Miami Beach fight while the brow heals. Yardley Holding Scoring Lead In NBL Games New York (IP) George Yardley found a new challen ger for the National Basket ball association's top scoring honors today in A d o 1 p h Schayes, the ex-New York University star who is playing his ninth season for the Syra cuse Nationals. Yardley still led the scorers with 926 points and a 27.2 average but two weeks of averaging 25 points a game lifted Schayes to 877 points "and a 24.4 average. Bob Pet tit, the St. Louis Hawks' 6 foot, 9-inch star, ranks third with 855 points and Clyde Lovellette of the Cincinnati Royals is fourth with 840. There's complete comfort for six in the modern and stylishly functional interior of a Scotsman. And there's operating economy ... up to 29 miles per gallon on regular gasoline. Thrifty as it is, the Scotsman is a full-sized car, with the extra Studebaker - craftsmanship that means lowest upkeep whileyou drive, higher value when you trade. See the 4-door Scotsman sedan priced at $1874 . . . and America's lowest-priced, fult 7DE' expanded its record to 10-1 and advanced one notch to 10th place. Kansas, which has topped the ratings for the two pre vious weeks, dropped to sec ond place, followed in order by North Carolina's defending national champions, San Francisco and Kansas State. Once again it was a close race among the leaders, with 27 points separating the first three teams and 109 points di viding the top five. Five of the teams ranked among the top 10 last week suffered defeats to cause a moderate shakeup of the rat ings. West Virginia was the third team to lead the ratings this season. North Carolina and Kansas each held first place for two weeks. Mountaineers Survive Siege West Virginia, however, survived the upset siege. Coach Fred Schaus' sharp shooting Mountaineers, who snapped North Carolina's streak at 37 victories two weeks ago, have averaged 85.4 points in their 10 triumphs. Twenty-one of the 35 lead ing coaches who make up the United Press rating board, made West Virginia their No. 1 choice. Nine voted for Kansas 10-1, three for North Carolina 9-1 and two for San Francisco 10-1. West Virginia's point-total was 309, compared to 288 for Kansas and 282 for North Carolina. San Francisco beat out Kansas State for fourth place, 208 points 1 200. "Still" Loss Hurli Kansas Oklahoma State, which took advantage of the incapacita tion of Wilt the Stilt Cham berlain to beat Kansas early in the week jumped from 14th to ninth place with an 8-1 record. Beavers' First-Sacker Retires for Teaching Portland (IP) Ed Mickel son, who hit .308 and .309 in two full seasons with the Portland Beavers, is retiring from baseball. Mickelson told manager Tommy Heath he was under a doctor's care for a nervous condition which led to his leaving the team in mid-season last year. Mickelson plans to take a public school teach ing job in Richmond Heights, Mo. Heath had hoped Mickelson would return to handle the first base job for Portland. America's Lowest-Priced Three! The '58 SCOTSMAN (2-door) just $1795 equipped This low prloo Includes heater defroster, directional signals, spare ttre and wheel, doubt wipers, mirror. Fay only local taxes, if any, and transportation from South Bend, Indiana. 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Anthony, Durelle Top Ring Slate New York tPi A reinra bout between light heavy weight contenders Tony An thony and Yvon Durelle tops this week's boxing schedule. , New Yorker Anthony and Canadian Durelle are slated for a Tiatinnallw tplpvispH and broadcast NBC 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden Fri day night. Slirlr hut snmpwViat fraeile Anthony is favored at 8-5 ove" the rugged but awkward chamrion of Canada, althoueh Durelle is ranked a notch higher among contenders by both the Ring Magazine and the National Boxing associa tion. Drew Last Tim Durelle, rated third by Ring and second by the NBA. if unbeaten in his last 11 bouts although they include his sur prise draw with Anthony in tfioir 10-rounder at Detroit. last June 14. Anthony, in his only start since then, was stopped by champion Archie Moore in the seventh round of their title fight at Los An geles, Sept. 20. Durelle of Baie St. Anne, N.B., hopes that a victory over Antnony will clinch a title shot at Moore. Incidentally, 42 - year - old Moore is scheduled for a non- title bout with Luiz Ignacio at Sao Paulo, Brazil, rriaay night. Wednesday's TV bout will bring together welterweights Sugar Hart of Philadelphia and Larry Baker of Indian apolis at the Chicago stadium. Hart is favored at 12-5 be cause of his punch. They are slated for 10 rounds. The week's boxing schedule includes: . Tuesday Los Angeles Davey Moore vs. Manuel Quijano; Oak land, Calif. Kenny Lane vs. John ny Gonsalves; Revere, Mass. Joe Devlin vs. Dick McCarthy. Friday New York, Garden Yvon Durelle vs. Tony Anthony: Sao Paulo. Brazil Archie Moor vs. Luis Ignacio. non-title. Saturday Hollywood, Calif. Alfredo Escobar vs. Gil Cadilli. ATTENTION Eagle Point and White City FOR HARD SHALE CALL TRINITY 8-3081 TONY MILLER SHALE CO. Trail, Oregon
